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Cost-sharing AIDS drug programme launched

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Central African Republic (CAR) is providing low cost anti-AIDS drugs over the next five years in an effort to improve the life expectancy of HIV-positive people and encourage voluntary HIV screening as a preventive strategy.

    Health Minister Nestor-Mamadou Nali said during the launch of the treatment programme earlier this week that poor people would receive antiretrovirals free of charge, while low-income earners were expected to pay US $4 a month.

    "This is keeping in line with the 'Bamako' [African healthcare] Initiative, which stresses community participation and low cost-sharing," Nali told the UN news service PlusNews.

    The treatment programme has been made possible by a $25 million Global AIDS Fund grant, approved in April.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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